Sometime

Sometime (no s) is also an adverb. Use it to talk about an unspecified point in the future or an unspecified point in the past.

Example sentences:

We should get together for coffee sometime!

Sometime soon I would like you to clean your room!

The accident occurred sometime before 6pm.

Sometime (no s) is also an adjective in American English, but it is rarely used. You will probably never need to use it in conversation, but you may hear it. Use it to talk about what someone does or is sometimes.

Example sentences:

She’s a sometime babysitter.
(Sometimes she babysits. She doesn’t do it all the time. She babysits once in a while.)

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing.
(This is a famous quote from an American football player and coach Vince Lombardi. It means that winning isn’t something that you do sometimes. It’s something that you do all the time!)

Some time

Some is used to talk about how much of the noun time you have or want. It’s like saying some food or some people:

Example sentences:

Do you have some time to check my essay?

She loves to spend some time in her garden.

Give me some time to think about it.

Some time is also used in a couple phrases.

The phrase for some time now means for a long period of time, not something that you just started recently.

Comments

Miss, Melanie. Please, I hope I didn’t offend you by writing this.
It is about Vince Lombardi quote. “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing.” And you said this means “winning is something that you do sometimes. It’s something that you do all the time!”
I think there is something missing or typo.
It’s contradictory because if winning is an all the time thing then how this possibly means as your saying winning is something that you do sometimes.

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